(January 27, 2018 at 2:22 am)purplepurpose Wrote: ... I bet endless torture was added by some sick headed people.
Endless torture is a pagan teaching, so prevalent that when Jesus talked about justice, he had to use their own ideas to convey a lesson.
In one parable, he used an illustration from their own books, and this is held up as proof by the fallen churches that hell is an eternal burning.
But they forget that in the same story, the beggar sits on Abraham's lap in heaven, while the greedy rich man talks to God from hell.
First you have saved people sitting on Abraham's lap - which would crush him, and secondly hell has a two way radio to heaven.
People believe what they want to believe, and then amass the 'evidence' for it.